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...work on grand municipal projects. Rockefeller Center is considered a prime, innovative example of modern design, but Lincoln Center and the Empire State Plaza in Albany have been widely criticized as banal and pompous. Harrison's bold, romantic impulses can best be seen in works like the Trylon and the Perisphere, which symbolized the confident mood of the 1939 World's Fair...
...Mercedes, with its familiar emblem, a trylon star, was all but eclipsed during World War II, when the makers, Daimler-Benz A.G., having turned to producing engines for Hitler's Messerschmitt-109 and Tiger Tank, had their main Stuttgart plant almost destroyed by allied bombs. But since last year, when Mercedes' powerful new 300 SL (for Super Light) grabbed off top honors at one road race after another, the star has been shining brighter than ever. It is being polished by other stars such as Bing Crosby, Gary Cooper and Errol Flynn, who have been trooping to Germany...
...luxury hotel and still its best. Harrison's firm was given the job of finding a suitably futuristic theme for New York's World's Fair. He and his designers spent months on the problem. On the 1,036th drawing, they got what they wanted-the Trylon & Perisphere. When the fair officials ran short of money and cut the Perisphere down by 20 feet, Harrison felt it was "a disaster...
Symbols of a prewar era that now seems as remote as the Gay Nineties, the Trylon & Perisphere are gone. But the World's Fair site at Flushing, N.Y. remains. There next week (Oct. 23) the U.N.'s 51 nations will open the first meeting of the General Assembly...
...Assistant Secretary of State Nelson A. Rockefeller's great & good friend Wallace Kirkman Harrison, 49, as the $10,000-a-year Director of Inter-American Affairs. No career diplomat, Appointee Harrison is a Manhattan architect, co-designer of Rockefeller Center and the New York World's Fair Trylon & Perisphere...